Middletown’s City Council passed a zoning law amendment on May 16 to ban cannabis sales on any property within the city boundary. Violators are punishable by fines between $250 and $2,000 or jail time of up to 15 days. City Council President Miguel Rodrigues told The Epoch Times that the amendment allows the city to regulate…

Mayor Eric Adams on Monday unveiled plans to convert vacant office space in New York City into new apartments to help relieve the city’s affordable housing crisis. Following the recommendations in a report from a city-led task force that was established in July of 2022, the mayor is making 11 recommendations that would make changes…

Commentary Inflation is hitting us at the gas pump, supermarket, as well as mortgage and rent. While the Federal Reserve (Fed) tries to beat inflation by increasing interest rates, that actually makes mortgage and rent payments worse, not better. Average mortgage payments at the mean have increased by almost 60 percent since the fourth quarter…

Commentary Over the past decade in Australia, we have had a series of governments delivering disappointing policies. Unfortunately, I expect this disappointment will continue with the new Labor government. One case in point: their housing policy was announced during the most recent election campaign. The Labor Party’s shared equity scheme is yet another poor federal…

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A grassroots coalition is seeking to have California voters decide if two new laws related to single-family zoning have gone too far and are currently gathering signatures to potentially put the issue on the November 2022 ballot. The laws in question are Senate Bill 9 and Senate Bill 10, which both went into effect…